Gift supports Cornell’s Tanzanian cassava efforts

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An anonymous gift of $2.65 million to support Cornell and partner research in Tanzania will improve distribution of new and more resistant varieties of cassava while empowering women and marginalized groups in the East African nation . Cassava...
  • Global Development Section
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Plant Breeding and Genetics Section
  • Global Development
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Global ‘wind atlas’ propels sustainable energy

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This wind atlas is the first publicly available, uniform and geospatially explicit (datasets tied to locations) description of extreme wind speeds, according to the research, “ A Global Assessment of Extreme Wind Speeds For Wind Energy...
  • Cornell Atkinson
  • Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
  • Energy
  • Environment
  • Planet
  • Natural Resources
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Migration not seen as solution by those in flood zones

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Lindy Williams, professor of global development and a member of the Migrations Lab, profiled two cities in the province of Luzon as they face the risks and consequences of frequent flooding. Despite these problems, “climate-driven migration is...
  • Global Development Section
  • Global Development
  • Behavior
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Glimmers of Hope

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Lead NY is for committed leaders in the agriculture and food industries who wish to step up and make a difference in their community. Kim Trombly (Class 18), field advisor for New York Farm Bureau, explores how the Covid-19 pandemic has changed...
  • Global Development Section
  • Agriculture
  • Food
  • Global Development
  • Environment
  • Natural Resources
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Building a New York company from the ground up

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Lead NY Executive Director Larry Van De Valk sat down with Ron Ramstad (Class 5) for a conversation about leadership, working in New York state and beyond, and his advise on building a company from the ground up.
  • Global Development Section
  • Agriculture
  • Field Crops
  • Food
  • Global Development
  • Natural Resources
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System of Rice Intensification recognized for climate policy impact

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The System of Rice Intensification (SRI) has been named as a 2020 climate policy "breakthrough" for government initiatives in Vietnam to increase agricultural production there while reducing methane emissions from rice paddies. SRI was...
  • Global Development Section
  • Agriculture
  • Global Development
  • Plants
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NYS farm outlook: scarce labor, higher wages in ’21

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“Ag labor is going to remain scarce due to … underlying demographics and labor market factors, even if we get immigration reform,” said Richard Stup, agricultural workforce specialist in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences and at...
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management
  • Agriculture
  • Horticulture
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Gut microbes in plant-eating ants help build tougher armor

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Gut bacteria in a species of herbivorous ant play a major role in processing nutrients that allow the ants to build tough exoskeletons, an international team of researchers has found.
  • Department of Entomology
  • Entomology
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Kavous Keshavarz, poultry nutrition expert, dies at 82

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Keshavarz, who lived in Athens, Georgia, was well-known for his work on how nutrition affects egg size and eggshell quality in poultry, which provided important guidance for New York and Northeast egg producers. His program also provided a model...
  • Animal Science

Economist: U.S. poised for rebound with vaccines, stimulus

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“(This year) is going to be so much better than 2020,” said Steven Kyle, associate professor in the Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management. “You will think you’re in a different universe.” Kyle presented his annual...
  • Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management
  • Agriculture
  • Applied Economics
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Cross-campus team probes gene-environment interactions

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The research, published Jan. 7 in The American Journal of Human Genetics, makes the process of finding these interactions much less difficult and demonstrates their importance in determining body mass index and diabetes risk. “Our study...
  • Molecular Biology and Genetics
  • Health + Nutrition
  • Disease
  • Genetics
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Lab of Ornithology to welcome new director in July

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Ian Owens, a distinguished evolutionary biologist and currently the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History’s deputy director, has been named the next executive director of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. Owens will take the helm of the...
  • Lab of Ornithology
  • Animals
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New Cherry Ember tomato reveals stripey charm, bright flavor

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A cross between heirloom tomato varieties, Cherry Ember was developed by Phillip Griffiths , associate professor of horticulture in the School of Integrative Plant Science, part of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. The new tomato is...
  • Cornell AgriTech
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Horticulture Section
  • Agriculture
  • Food
  • Fruits
  • Vegetables
  • Horticulture
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Study: Rethink immigration policy for STEM doctorates

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The new Biden administration backs policy reform aimed at achieving that end, which was part of bipartisan legislation proposed more than a decade ago. But progress has been stalled by broader concerns about visas – particularly the temporary H...
  • Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management
  • Applied Economics
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Intro to Oceanography: The virtual edition

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Taught by Bruce Monger, senior lecturer in the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, a shared unit between the College of Engineering and the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS), the era of COVID-19 and remote teaching...
  • Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
  • Environment
  • Planet
  • Water
  • Ecosystems
  • Climate Change
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Appearance, social norms keep students off Zoom cameras

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When the semester shifted online amid the COVID-19 pandemic last spring, instructor Mark Sarvary, Ph.D. ’06, and his teaching staff decided to encourage – but not require – students to switch on their cameras. It didn’t turn out as they’d hoped...
  • Behavior
  • Communication
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Proteins unspool DNA so cells can take on unique properties

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New research reveals how proteins, called “pioneer transcription factors,” help turn on key genes that give cell types their unique properties and functions. These pioneer factors, it turns out, help unspool tightly wound coils of DNA so that...
  • Molecular Biology and Genetics
  • Biology
  • Genetics

Early breeding reduced harmful mutations in sorghum

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A new comparative study investigates whether the same patterns found in maize occurred in sorghum, a gluten-free grain grown for both livestock and human consumption. The researchers were surprised to find the opposite is true: Harmful mutations...
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Molecular Biology and Genetics
  • Agriculture
  • Plants
  • Crops
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